U.S. Census Bureau Facts for Features: Super Bowl 50: Feb. 7, 2016

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Super Bowl 50 will be played Feb. 7 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. The first Super Bowl was played on Jan. 15, 1967, at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, with the Green Bay Packers beating the Kansas City Chiefs by the score of 35-10. This will be the second time the NFL's championship game will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the last one, the San Francisco 49ers beat the Miami Dolphins 38-16 at Stanford Stadium in 1985.

To commemorate this year's golden anniversary Super Bowl, the Census Bureau has compiled a collection of facts looking at how life has changed from 1967 to 2016 and examining the demographics of the host metropolitan area, as well as the metro areas represented by the two participants — the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers.

A collection of demographic and economic information showing how life has changed from Super Bowl 1 in 1967 to Super Bowl 50 in 2016.

Go to <http://quickfacts.census.gov> for more statistics about the cities involved. Unless otherwise noted, all comparisons are statistically significant at the 0.10 level.

Median Sales Price of a New Single-Family Home1967: $22,7002016: $282,800 (as of 2014)Note: Sales prices shown are not adjusted for inflation or other factors.Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Median and Average Sales Prices of New Homes Sold in United States: 1963-2015<https://www.census.gov/construction/nrs/pdf/uspricemon.pdf>

26.1 minutesAverage amount of time it took Charlotte metro area residents to get to work; 81.0 percent of the metro area's workers drove to work alone, 9.4 percent carpooled and 1.9 percent took public transportation. Nationally, it took an average of 26.0 minutes to get to work, which is not statistically difference from the Charlotte metro area's time. Source: 2014 American Community Survey<http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/14_1YR/S0801/0100000US|310M200US16740>

34thWhere the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif., metropolitan area ranked on the list of the nation's most populous metro areas. The estimated population of the San Jose metro area on July 1, 2014, was 1,952,872. The San Jose metro area gained 24,171 people from July 1, 2013, to July 1, 2014. Source: Vintage 2014 Population Estimates<http://www.census.gov/popest/data/metro/totals/2014/index.html>

Following is a list of observances typically covered by the Census Bureau's Facts for Features series:

African-American History Month (February)

Labor Day (1st Monday in September)

Super Bowl (first Sunday in February)

Grandparents Day (1st Sunday after Labor Day)

Valentine's Day (Feb. 14)

Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15-Oct. 15)

Women's History Month (March)

Unmarried and Single Americans Week (3rd week of September)

Irish-American Heritage Month (March)

Halloween (Oct. 31)

St. Patrick's Day (March 17)

American Indian/Alaska Native Heritage Month

Earth Day (April 22)

(November)

Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month (May)

Veterans Day (Nov. 11)

Older Americans Month (May)

Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday in November)

Mother's Day (2nd Sunday in May)

The Holiday Season (December)

Hurricane Season Begins (June 1)

Father's Day (third Sunday in June)

The Fourth of July (July 4)

Anniversary of Americans with Disabilities Act (July 26)

Back to School (August)

Editor's note: The preceding data were collected from a variety of sources and may be subject to sampling variability and other sources of error. Facts for Features are customarily released about two months before an observance in order to accommodate magazine production timelines.